Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 163, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1912 — “Solid Gold.” [ARTICLE]

“Solid Gold.”

Commercially speaking, the term “solid gold” is a misnomer, since such gold has not been used for many, many years. Some of the ancient Roman jewelry and Some of that of the Renaissance period was, Indeed, made of pure gold, worked up by hand with the crudest of tools, but since the old days there has been a constantly increasing employment of alloys, for the reason that jewelers found that the harder the gold was rendered by good alloys the greater its wearing qualities and the more secure, therefore, was the setting of the gems it contained. Nowadays jewelry is of 18, 14 or 10 carats, according to the design and character of the article, and it is much mom frequently ten than eighteen carats.